# all the nations "the people of all the nations" # have drunk the wine of her immoral passion "have become sexually immoral like her" or "have become drunk like her in sexual sin" # her immoral passion Babylon is spoken of as if it were a prostitute who has caused other people to sin along with her. This may well have a double meaning: literal sexual immorality and also the worship of false gods. # merchants A merchant is a person who sells things. # from the power of her sensual way of living "because she spent so much money on sexual immorality"